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"It's super hot, I don't really enjoy this much sun you know!" Elsa squinted her eyes looking at Ariadne as she helped her stabilize the plant. Elsa's eyes, being light, were quite sensitive to the sun's brightness as were her cheeks and nose bridge which were getting red-ish pink now. "I know, I tried to carry it by myself but it kept falling on my face or worse.. that's why I'm so glad you're helping!" then they were back to shoveling. Shovel, shovel, shovel, and done!
"Thank you, really" Elsa said with a tired sigh, opening her water bottle and drinking some more. At the rate she could feel sweat drip down her back, she was sure she was getting slightly dehydrated. Ariadne watered the plant, and Elsa felt a smile spread on her lips looking at it on it's new home. "Look at that, we're giving life back to earth!".
She then gathered her things and walked the short distance to where her friend was planting cabbages. "Yes!" she answered, retrieving once more her notebook to check the necessary steps "digging a hole, mix compost into the soil - yuck! - wet cabbage, tear the bottom off, place thingy in the holly, fill it.. water" she murmured as she read. Maybe they could split up the shores?
She scratched her nose with the back of her hand, failing miserably on trying to prevent dirt, mud and everything else to get on her face. It was like she was ready for war. Well, at least the burning sensation on part of her face was gone, mud felt reaaaally cool. That gave her an idea.
"Maybe you can start on the hole while I go get some compost mix?" she suggested, wrinkling her nose, making a funny face as she rubbed some more mud on the bridge of her nose as if it were sunscreen. Hopefully the compost mix wasn't a smelly one. But why did they have to do all this by hand? "Why does this all have to be done by hand? Wouldn't it be easier, quicker and much more effective if we could dig the holes and stuff using magic?" she asked, directed to the teachers who were nearby, flaunting her muddy face as she got up to pick up the compost.
Ariadne shrugged.
"It doesn't bother me that much. My family's big Quidditch fans. We're kind of used to being out in the Sun--player or fan," she said. Ariadne nodded in response when Elsa told her she was glad she was helping. Then she remembered a question the girl had asked her, and for some reason, she'd forgotten to respond.
"I'm a Slytherin, by the way. I'm Ariadne Greingoth." She'd ask the girl for her name and house, but she just assumed she would tell her on her own now.
"Yeah, sure," Ariadne said, grabbing a spade and starting on the hole. She made two--one for her own plant and one for Elsa's plant. She was pretty sure the land needed both of them. She glanced up at Elsa and added,
"Probably because this class is a combination of classes, and Muggle Studies is one of them." She looked around the land.
"I'm pretty sure finding the location and all was part of Muggle Studies, too, though."
When the compost was gathered and at their sides, Ariadne turned toward it with a gloved hand. She scooped up some of the compost and began mixing it into the soil in the hole. This kind of stuff didn't really bother her. Neither one of her parents were worried about getting messy with magic, so she wasn't either. Even her dad, the former Minister of Magic, didn't mind getting dirty out on the Quidditch pitch.